Nouvelle Decouverte - Bella Foster

I've finally had to admit it,  I've come down with something!  (Flu?)  How does that work, in the beginning of July?  Good news is, it's giving me a chance to have a wander around the web.  (Because I have been bad about visiting.)  And a chance to find new things.

She is a Brooklyn, NYC artist, in the vein of Matisse and the Nabis (Bonnard, Vuillard)  I like her loose style, her vivid colors, her Selby style (she does paintings of other peoples' spaces see here) bleeding into abstraction.  Check out her website here:  Bella Foster

Have a lovely, lazy summer weekend all!

Friday Flowers

My little jobs are keeping me pretty close to home.

I have to admit to verging on being screamingly bored.

Here's what I've got for relief.

 There's not a great deal being grown over here at Passage Paradis

But what is, I'm quite pleased with.

There's been a bit more TLC lavished on these guys this summer.

Which has generally been nicely rewarded.  Two further words about it all:  FISH EMULSION!

Summer and Sweetness

I took all these pictures the same week I was painting the kitchen.

Does it happen to you that doing boring home improvement jobs around the house

makes everything else look sweeter, shinier

more colorful and sunnier?  

Oh it does for me!

Corner View - Before and After

Bear with me today, for this very broad interpretation of "Before and After"

as it pertains to life in Hollywood

and parenthood.  Do you see anybody that you know in these pictures?  Alternatively, we can just call this picture grouping "Sum-Sum-Summer-r-r-r-r-t-i-m-e!!!!!"

For more Corner Views:  

Francesca, Jane, Ian, Don, Anna, Dana, LaNinja, Theresa, CherryB, Joyce, Natsumi, Lumetta, Kari, Bonnie, Cate, Dorte, Skylar, April, Lollipop, Janis, ibb, jgy, IdaNielsen, Liza, Likeschocolate, Isabelle, Lucylaine, Allegria, Pienduzz, Elisabelle,RosaMaria, Elizabeth, BichosdaMatos, Juniper, Victoria, Annabel, Angie, Emily, Kamana, Tikjewit, Tanïa, Barbara, Moetjatja, Dorit, Flowtops, Valérie, Juliette, Castor, Wanderchow, LouetTom, Lise, FashionCampagne, Tzivia, Cole,Juanita, Li + Belle, Sophie, Menthe blanche, Leslie...

How Was Your Weekend?

Our fireworks were fantastic! 

 I'll shortly be back in proper blogging mode...hope you like this one till then.

Fourth of July - Why Do We Celebrate?

unalienable rights.........all men........created equal.......endowed by their creator......life.....liberty..........the pursuit of happiness............with justice for all.........

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity............U.S. Declaration of Independence

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO ALL THOSE FREE, NEWLY FREE AND YEARNING TO BE FREE!!!!!!

Holiday Weekend Ahead

We Americans are taking a couple days off to be lazy and grill some burgers.  Thinking of you!  Have a great one!